Asked not to eat food from elsewhere

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In an independent burger bar tucked away in the corner. It is 7:30 and just finished some shopping with kids in tow. DD has decided burgers are another thing she cant eat anymore so we quickly called next door for a kids sandwich and popped back to previous tucked away seat. The owner comes along and tells me to ask my daughter to put the sandwich away if we are eating in. But loudly so the customers can hear, which they all did. So would you call this pernickety behaviour or her prerogative?

I think that's fair enough to be honest.

Ywbu

Sounds fair enough,

You were being unreasonable

Of course that's not ok, if you'd asked first maybe the owner round have been sympathetic

A lot of places say you can only eat what you have purchased from them. Sounds fair enough tbh

You were being very cheeky and she was right to pull you up on it.

Would not round

It’s fair enough, most places have this rule.

Of course YABU. You can’t buy a sandwich and sit and eat it in the burger cafe. Although, having said that, if you and the other children are all ordering burgers and drinks and she’s having her sandwich then they’re being a little picky. But if you’re just sat there not ordering then it’s you who’s BU.

YABU.

Yeah, quite standard for them not to be okay with that I would have thought?

Errr

That is kind of how cafes and restaurants work tbf

They might have been more sympathetic if you had asked them first.

If you really need to ask it's probably pointless anyone telling you YABU but yes, YABU.

Normal, I would have thought.

Is this a reverse?

While you were sitting there were the rest of you eating food that was ordered from the burger bar?

You were definitely unreasonable. Pretty standard not to eat food from other places in restaurants/cafes.

Sorry OP I think it’s fair enough and actually agree with the owner.

The only circumstances under which I think it’s ok to bring your own food is if it’s baby food or in the case of very serious allergies. But it doesn’t sound like either of those apply since your DD was able to eat a sandwich from another shop.

YABVU. It's their business; they should only see people eating their lunch that they bought their, except babies obviously. The very least you could have done is to have mentioned it in advance.

Ah ok realised i hadnt put that me and my son had burger fries drinks so jjst picky little girl not eating. I fidnt think anyone would notice to be fair as the sandwich was in the same brown bag like the burgers came in. This burger bar is a copycat five guys style buger bar btw

Did you buy a burger at least?

If not, you can't expect to use their premises like this

X post. YANBU then.

YABVU I own a restaurant and if we let everyone do this I'd be out of business.

However if you had come up and explained the situation first and ordered food for everyone else I would not have minded.

Wait, you were all eating food except for the child having a sandwich?

I think it's a stupid policy when it means you're not likely to come back.